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Controversies of the Polish–Soviet War. Categories: War crimes committed by country. Military history of Poland. Human rights abuses in Poland.
The occupying powers' actions eclipsed the sovereign Polish state, whose government went into exile, and inflicted massive damage to the country's cultural heritage. Other war crimes against Poland included deportations aimed at ethnic cleansing, imposition of forced labor, pacifications, and genocidal acts.
War crimes; crimes against humanity. No prosecution. A massacre perpetrated by the Red Army against civilian inhabitants of the Polish village of Przyszowice in Upper Silesia during the period 26 to 28 January 1945. Sources vary on the number of victims, which range from 54 [12] to over 60 – and possibly as many as 69.
The Katyn massacre [a] was a series of mass executions of nearly 22,000 Polish military officers and intelligentsia prisoners of war carried out by the Soviet Union, specifically the NKVD ("People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs", the Soviet secret police) in April and May 1940. Though the killings also occurred in the Kalinin and Kharkiv ...
A. Afghan war crimes (1 C, 10 P) Albanian war crimes (1 C, 3 P) Algerian war crimes (3 C, 7 P) Armenian war crimes (1 C, 4 P) Australian war crimes (3 C, 4 P) Austrian war crimes (3 C, 4 P) Azerbaijani war crimes (1 C, 15 P)
Hitler's speech to officers of the Wehrmacht High Command at Obersalzberg, 22 August 1939 Also, before the invasion of Poland, the Nazis prepared a detailed list identifying more than 61,000 Polish targets (mostly civilian) by name, with the help of the German minority living in the Second Polish Republic. The list was printed secretly as the 192-page-book called Sonderfahndungsbuch Polen ...
Historian Krzysztof Dunin-Wąsowicz [ pl] calculated that between January 1, 1943 and July 31, 1944, in secret or open executions carried out in Warsaw, the German occupiers murdered about 20,500 people, [56] most of whom were in all probability executed in the former ghetto. According to IPN historians, around 20,000 people were murdered in ...
World War II casualties of Poland. Around 6 million Polish citizens perished during World War II: about one fifth of the pre-war population. [1] Most were civilian victims of the war crimes and crimes against humanity during the occupation by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. Approximately half were Polish Jews killed in The Holocaust.